Work will close 2 Brown Line stations Saturday, CTA says

April 06, 2006

The Brown Line stations at Kimball and Francisco Avenues will be closed on Saturday but will reopen for normal service on Sunday as work continues on a $530 million project to increase capacity, Chicago Transit Authority officials said Wednesday.

The announcement reverses an earlier CTA statement that the stations would be open on Saturday and Sunday.

Under the new plan, the two stations will close at 4 a.m. Saturday and reopen at 2:30 a.m. Sunday. During those hours, a free shuttle bus will operate between the stations at Western and Kimball Avenues, also making stops at Rockwell Street and Lawrence Avenue, Sacramento and Lawrence, Kedzie and Lawrence, and Kedzie and Wilson Avenues. People traveling south of the Western stop will be able to take trains going into the Loop.